Dragonwolf

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The story centers around two men. Mozart (Kazu Patrick Tang) who is the wolf. As a child he was saved by a Shaman at the cost of his mother's soul. When she died he was "cared for" by his "brother" Julius (Johan Kirsten) the Dragon, giving us the title. They became successful hitmen in the city of Devil's Cauldron. The story starts out confusing as Mozart is killing Julius' men to the displeasure of their mutual boss. Through a series of flashbacks we discover that Julius attempted to have Mozart killed over a love triangle involving Mary (Macha Polivka) a woman with a dragon tattoo. The film is basically a Thai grindhouse. It includes some classically bad dubbing on a few of the minor characters. The two hour feature allows us to develop some complexity for the two main characters as we have scenes of Julius visiting his dying mother. Perhaps the downfall of the film is its genre mixing as a martial arts grindhouse and love drama, the latter of which wasn't done well. It also introduces a major character 90 minutes into the film to tie up some plot points. The film had enough blood splatter and pretty girls to keep be entertained. Its haphazard flashback construction left me slightly confused for the early stages of the film. A soft 4 stars. Worth viewing for grindhouse fans. Parental Guide: Not much swearing. There were a couple of badly dubbed "Mother Fo's" And when I say Mother Fo I mean Mother Fo and not something that sounds like it. There was something that sounded like a quick F-bomb spoken by Julius when he first describes Mary's dragon tattoo. Sex scenes and a healthy amount of nudity including the main female leads Macha Polivka and Guk Srisawat.

I'll keep this simple. The story is bad, made absolutely terrible by some of the worst voice-over work I've had the misfortune of hearing, and I've played some terrible games and watched some terrible films in my time. The action is choreographed reasonably. This doesn't mean it's good, it's passable. It's noticeable too often and there is too much reliance on fighting, making it seem like it's just a wet dream fantasy of some random guy. This wet dream fantasy is culminated with shoe-horned sex scenes or just random female nudity. Now, granted, this actually is the best part of the film for me, as a hot-blooded male who thought the film was pretty crap. The women were very attractive, but were simply there to be that, which is a shame. I say women, it was just one woman really, and a topless Asian girl right at the end. Honestly, the film is just plain bad, start to finish. The only redeeming feature is the rare, but nice to look at, nudity. That makes me sound terribly misogynistic, which I swear I'm not (!), but it's the truth. It's not worth watching.

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